#publishing

Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#because #building #company #course #hung

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#far #fewer #publishers #publishing #significant

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#ideas #industry #publishing #received #weren

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#career #go #i #publishing #willing

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history. ↗

— Rick James

#anymore #artist #because #company #dollars

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. ↗

— Erica Jong

#bankrupt #book #disappearing #down #effectively

So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#book #editing #few #gave #go

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists. ↗

— John Sebastian

#bit #businessmen #era #error #extent

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first. ↗

— Seth Godin

#books #bunch #economics #favor #first

Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation. ↗

— Rob Walton

#beginning #big #big bang #calling #course